Like 2000 election?

Wade on June 16, 2009 at 6:03 PM

In 2000 the courts ruled that the Gore team was using an illegal method to count the ballots.

How is that comparable to this situation?

Democrats and Republicans should heed his words and find a power-sharing accommodation if they want to get back to their jobs.

My bet would be that there are rules and laws that define what the actions should be in this scenario and everyone should be held to those. I guess you would have them find a “power sharing accomadation” like newt did when there wasn’t any reason to except to try and make himself look better. That worked out well didn’t it, ed? Twelve years of republican, lawful, citizen determined control right down the toilet. Nothing done because newt and the republicans bent over and grabbed their ankles and were “accomadating” as you suggest.

The grand irony is that RoboCop 2 was directed by Irvin Kershner, who IMHO directed the greatest sequel to be handed off by the original film’s director. The movie? The Empire Strikes Back.

(A close second: Aliens, directed by James Cameron.)

Clap, clap, clap, … to Judge McNamara.

WashJeff on June 16, 2009 at 5:39 PM

Yeah, but the whiny babies in the Dem party will probably keep looking for some activist judge who will rule in their favor

Another place that would make America better if it’d just fall into the ocean…NY

Jeff from WI on June 16, 2009 at 7:59 PM

Oh, don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. Sure Manhattan, “the city,” etc is a political mess, but the vast majority of the state and the people that occupy it are great. It’s just hard for us to outvote all the illegal voters and brainwashed in the densely (and I mean that in every sense of the word) populated city.

Wade on June 16, 2009 at 6:03 PM

In 2000, SCOTUS simply said the FL electors had to present their votes on time with the rest of the nation, regardless of for whom that would be. In other words, nobody gets to get “do-overs” until they get the “right” answer – the vote is the vote. Incidentally, over a year later the NYT finally got around to acknowledging that detail. Why can’t the rest of the Left, say, “move on” already?

Like 2000 election?

Wade on June 16, 2009 at 6:03 PM

Strawman.

SCOTUS ruling on electoral law and SCOTUS deciding who is in charge in a legislative body are two distinctly different things.

Get a grip.

Justice McNamara said, adding, “Go across the street and resolve this for the people of New York.”

Take turns drinking shots of whisky. Last one to pass out wins!

I feel for the people of New York. However, you get what you vote for. Throw the bums out of office!

Now if SCOTUS had told POTUS he does not get to violate contract law and throw bondholder under the bus. But I digress.

Branch Rickey on June 16, 2009 at 5:42 PM

Like 2000 election?

New York has its share of whackjob judges, going all the way back to Turn ‘em Loose Bruce and before, but at times it does seem to exhibit more judicial restraint than their Golden State counterparts.

Now if SCOTUS had told POTUS he does not get to violate contract law and throw bondholder under the bus. But I digress.